Wire-twister.



No 775,143. PATENTED NOV. 15, 1904. K. K. LEROL, JR.

WIRE TWISTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 21, 1904.

N0 MODEL.

Savant,-

Patented November 15, 1904.

PATENT UEETCE.

KNUD K. LEROL, JR, OF AMHERST, MINNESOTA.

WIRE-TWISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 775,143, dated November15, 1904.

Application filed March 21, 1904.

To all whom, it Wmy concern:

Be it known that I, KNUD K. LnRoL, Jr., a citizen of the United States,residing at Amherst, in the county of Fillmore and State of Minnesota,have invented new and useful Improvements in lVire-Twisters, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in implements or tools which may betermed wire-twisters. It is designed for use particularly in twisting orsplicing together fencewires, as in stringing the Wires in position inbuilding the fence; and it has for its object to effect this in a simpleand expeditious manner and with facility.

Said invention consists of the detailed structural features of the same.substantially as hereinafter more fully disclosed by the follow ingdescription, and particularly pointed out by the claims concluding saiddescription.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment ofmy invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view thereof. Fig. 2 is apartial front view or plan. Fig; 3 is a view showing the practicalapplication of the implement or tool, as in effecting the tying ortwisting together of fence-wires, in connection with means for assistingthat operation at one stage or step of such operation. Fig. 4c is a likeview as the last described at a later stage or step in the tying ortwisting operation. Fig. 5 is a view showing the result of the completetying or twisting operation.

In the carrying out of myinvention Isuitably or preferably cast theimplement or tool in any usual way. Said tool or implement comprises ahandle member 1, preferably of the crosssectional and longitudinal areashown, to provide for the requisite grasping-surface for the hand forconvenience or facility of actuation and terminates in or is equipped atits effective or one end laterallysay of a line extending through itslongitudinal center with an arcuate or hooked gripping lug or jaw 2,facing a line paralleling the greater width of said member. Said handlemember has also at the same end a right-angled or lateral extensionSerial No. 199,291. No model.)

or lug 3, arranged relatively laterally of the jaw 2 and in a planeinward from the beak or forward edge terminal of the latter to enable itto accordingly bear upon the wire strand while said jaw or hook engagesor receives said strands, as shown in Fig. 3.

In using the device or twister, assuming the wire sections 4 and 5 aregripped intermediately of their terminals 6 and 7 by pliers suitablyactuated to that end, said twister is so applied to said wire sectionsthat its lug 3 is presented to the terminal 6 and then actuated so as toeffect the upward bending of the latter, as indicated in Fig. 3 andshown at the left of the pliers in Fig. 4, the lug 2 having been hookedand bearing upon this one of the wire sections. The twister now afterhaving been unhookcd from the wire sections is reapplied to the upbeatterminal 6 thereof, so as to effect the twisting of the last namedaround the wire section, constituting the main wire or stringer, as willbe rcadil y understood from Fig. at. The companion terminal 7 issubjected to a like manipulation or application of the twister, but onlyin a reverse manner, thereby tying or twisting said terminal around orupon the other wire section and effectively connecting or uniting saidwire sections forming the stringers.

\Vhat I claim is- 1. A tool of the character described, comprising ahandle member having at one end a hooked lug overhanging said end andhaving its terminal arranged in a line passing substantially through thelongitudinal center of said handle member, said handle member havingalso at the same end a second lug adapted to engage the object to beacted upon laterally of and in the same general direction as that inwhich the latter is engaged by said hooked lug.

2. A tool of the character described comprising a handle member havingat one end a hooked lug overhanging said end and having its terminalarranged in a line passing substantially through the longitudinal centerof said handle member, said handle member having also at said end asecond lug extending latto this specification in the presence of twosuberally therefrom, With its upper surface proscribing Witnesses. ducedin continuation of the corresponding surface of said handle member endand par- KNUD LEROL alleling a line subtending or touching saidWVitnesses: hook-terminal, for the purpose specified. THORE T. JOHNSON,

In testimony whereof I have signed my name RANDI T. JOHNSON.

